The world-devouring dragon

At the same time, in the endless deep sea, an unimaginably huge snake lay quietly resting in the deepest part of the sea. On the other side, he watched the girl's cry with interest, feeling all the things that came from the girl's heart, such as Regret, fanaticism, jealousy, resentment, fear and other complex emotions, the complex and changeable emotions make this big snake with human thinking mode but without complete human memory very interested.

"interesting."

And the big snake, feeling all this, was very satisfied with the choice he had made.

The big snake has no ambitions or desires. All he wants is to satisfy his hunger and sleep soundly. And since he swallowed the sun into his belly, he has indeed been able to no longer feel hunger. In fact, the infinite blazing heat that always emanates The sun, with its endless light and heat, was still intact in his belly at this moment.

Compared with the food, this heater that made Orochi feel extremely comfortable all over his body not only satisfied Orochi's never-ending hunger, but also gave him time to think and understand other things that he had originally ignored. s things.

For example...

Those little voices that often echoed in his ears.

Those small sounds appeared not long after the big snake was born, but the big snake, which was always in a state of extreme hunger and had no time to eat, had no time and energy to pay attention to those sounds that were louder than the buzzing of mosquitoes. A small voice not much louder.

After the big snake swallowed the sun, such small sounds suddenly became very numerous, and they continued to increase every moment.

But just as it happened, the big snake was in the stage of having enough wine and food, and finally had the time to think about what these sounds were, and began to treat these small sounds that were always lingering around his ears with interest.

"Please give the sun back..."

"hope……"

"..."

Countless murmurs surrounded the snake's ears. Some were begging him to return the sun, some were worshiping her, some were making wishes to him, and some even gave arrogant orders. He scolded him.

There are many owners of voices, some are scholars, some are kings, some are prophets, some are ambitious usurpers, generals, nobles, pirates...

There are many kinds of voices, and all the voices mentioning the name of Jormungandr will also be heard by the big snake. However, after listening to the prayers of some voices with great interest, the big snake quickly lost it. Interesting, because there are too many prayers that are the same, nothing more than begging for strength, begging for wealth, or trying to offer him cattle and sheep sacrifices, etc.

If it were before the big snake swallowed the sun, the big snake might still be very interested in those cattle and sheep sacrifices, after all, it could fill its stomach, but now, the never-extinguishing sun is in his belly, even if those cattle and sheep are no longer It's plump and tender, and even the big snake has lost interest in it.

However, not all prayers and sacrifices are of no interest to the Orochi. There are also some things that can make the Orochi quite interesting, such as...

"A powerful and wise being, humble mortals are here to offer sacrifices to you..."

As he fell into a deep sleep, a murmured prayer came to his ears.

Normally, this kind of sacrifice would not be paid attention to by the big snake, and he did the same. However, this murmured prayer was different. The other party was extremely stubborn and persistent.

One sacrifice is not enough for two sacrifices, and two sacrifices are not enough for three sacrifices.

But mere persistence is not enough to move the serpent. If we talk about persistence, there is another king who, after listening to the priest's advice, used a hundred big bulls as sacrifices every day for more than ten days in a row, just to be able to In exchange for the sun, the big snake sneezed directly and turned into countless raging tornadoes, destroying the entire country under the rule of the wise king. Without him, the other party's prayers were too loud. Annoying.

But the most important thing is the other party's sacrifice...

A North warrior with only a few pieces of armor on his body and a battle ax in his hand was engaged in a life-and-death fight with a black bear on the opposite side.

The North warrior was very brave, and the scars all over his body were enough to prove that he was indeed a good warrior. However, during the fight, he was caught off guard and was caught by the black bear. The black bear slapped him to the ground. Then his throat was bitten directly by a black bear.

The surrounding crowds were filled with excitement and cheers

And what came from the prayers was not only the prayers, but also the negative emotions of unwillingness and despair before the warrior died. It was this emotion that made the snake feel a little interesting.

He knew very well that his body contained the memory of a human being, or the memory of a human time traveler. He also thought about problems according to human thinking patterns. However, what confused him was that he didn't think about it at all. It is difficult to feel the complex humanity of when he was a human being. The roots and methods that drive him to act are still more of the animal nature of the beast, rather than the humanity in his memory.

He was even a little confused about this, whether he was a time-traveler named Meng who had time-traveled into a giant snake, or whether a giant snake had gained the memory of a time-traveler named Meng.

In order to verify this, he decided to use this group of human tribes as experimental subjects.

The experiment was successful. When the prophetess was presiding over sacrifices and her spirit was in an ethereal state, he tried to contact her, and the other party instantly saw part of his appearance...

However, it seems that for a mortal, the feeling of coming into contact with a huge existence that is so huge that she cannot describe it in words is still too shocking.

The sense of fear and shock instantly caused the other party to withdraw from that ethereal state.

However, the serpent eventually left a mark deep in her soul. This mark caused the prophetess to gradually transform into a half-human, half-snake form, and incidentally affected several clans centered on her.

Fanatical sacrifices, bloody rituals, growing worship and belief...

Compared with the consciousness of the Orochi, human consciousness is too humble and insignificant. Even if it is just a simple gaze, the projection of the Orochi's will is gradually affecting and distorting the temperament of these mortals, making this group of people. Mortals showed more complex personalities and dark sides under Orochi's observation. When Orochi watched the plots, betrayals, vendettas, deceptions, etc. between these mortals, he was able to gradually remember those things in his own mind. The incomplete human memory corresponded one-to-one with these behaviors, which made the snake deeply satisfied.

but……

"As expected, you still can't substitute it."

Once again watching a conspiracy and betrayal between human beings, the plot is nothing more than two former friends. In this embarrassing situation, one of them takes advantage of the other's unpreparedness and strangles him to death by a dark alley. Needless to say, hesitation, hesitation, and mental torture are all somewhat sparse and ordinary.

But looking at the world in front of him when he was still a human being, which was enough to make a thirty-episode TV series, Orochi clearly realized that he could not be a substitute for it. Although it was interesting to watch what happened between these humans, However, just like the plot of "Animal World" he watched before, it can't be said to be boring, but no matter what it is, it can't make him feel any empathy.

The desire for beautiful women, the greed for gold and silver, the desire for power...

All kinds of desires are difficult to find in the big snake. It's not that the big snake has no desires, but because the big snake's desires are fundamentally different from human desires.

What the big snake is chasing is to satisfy its own hunger, which is the most primitive root desire, but human beings are chasing all kinds of more and more complex desires.

"Is it because I have no sense of identity as a human being?"

What is the deep-seated reason behind this? Orochi cannot figure it out, and he is not prepared to think about it. For him, he will not deny the identity of the human named Meng in the past, but he will not deny the identity of the giant snake now. deny.

In other words, he is both, he is him, a giant snake with human thought patterns and beastly nature.

He doesn't intend to pursue those incomplete human memories, and he doesn't mind his past and origins. Anyway, it's all in the past and he doesn't bother to care about it.

And after silently comparing the differences between the human emotions that he saw with his own eyes and the human emotions in his own memory, this group of clans lost their value in the eyes of the big snake.

The only thing that Orochi didn't expect was that there was someone who could resist his mental infection, so that Orochi was quite surprised. Out of curiosity, he did not hesitate to show an illusory incarnation, but...

Mortals are still mortals after all, even mortals with some special talents are still just mortals after all. It is just because when they were in a state of near death and lost their mental defenses, they saw the appearance of the big snake, and all their mental defenses were instantly defeated...

Totally broken.

Although he was slightly disappointed and bored, the big snake still generously swallowed the sacrifices that crazily worshiped and praised him, but the girl was not swallowed by him. After all, she was not infected or crazy by his will at all, and she had no desire to The crazy and perverted evil desires he offered were not sacrifices at all.

Different from the self-righteous understanding of the prophetess, although she was vaguely aware of the serpent's desire for humans, she did not notice it...

The big snake did not regard the sacrifices placed on the altar as sacrifices at all. In fact, the real sacrifices were always the people who crazily offered sacrifices to him.

The evil, twisted, depraved souls and behaviors between them are the sacrifices that Orochi is really interested in and wants.

There is always only one true sacrificial ceremony.

A group of gradually crazy, depraved, and twisted human beings. This is the real ritual and sacrifice.

"Since you want the sun, then I will give you the sun...and you will be with the sun forever from now on."

The Orochi is quite generous. As long as the sacrifice is successful, the Orochi is happy to fulfill the wishes of mortals and will not break the contract.

However, apart from that, Orochi is actually thinking about another thing...

"Me... Jormungandr?"

"Thor? Odin? Have I traveled to Norse mythology?"

After a long time, the big snake finally realized from the prayers of his prayers that he was in Norse mythology.